The Israeli Prime Minister has turned a deaf ear to call’s for a cease fire and his resignation from political opponents …..
In their march into surrounding Gaza City the Israeli military has secured one of its captured soldier’s….
Three captured Israeli women have been shown on social media criticising Netanyahu for his actions….
More humanitarian aid has flowed into Gaza from Egypt…
The thinking maybe that Israel wants to overrun Gaza city and then colonize the city under local civilian control but Israeli security oversight, to ensure no Hamas influence….
President Biden asks that civilian’s should be safe …..
Nethayahu replies that the bombing of the Nazi’s in German had no such promise….
There is a quiet report that the head of Israel’s Mossad has been in Qatar talking about freeing Istaeli hostages….
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday forcefully rejected calls for a cease-fire as “calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism,” telling reporters that Israel was “fighting the enemies of civilization itself.”
Humanitarian groups and the United Nations General Assembly, among others, have appealed for a cease-fire. But Mr. Netanyahu, speaking in English, asked nations to back Israel in its fight against Hamas, saying “Israel’s fight is your fight.”
Asked about the civilian death toll in Gaza from Israeli airstrikes, Mr. Netanyahu said that “not a single civilian has to die,” and he accused Hamas of “preventing them from leaving the areas of conflict.” Israeli airstrikes and a ground offensive have killed more than 8,000 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Gazan health ministry.
The Israeli military advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip on Monday, moving toward Gaza City from at least three sides as it continued battering the enclave with airstrikes. Israel has provided limited details about the invasion, four days into what an Israeli official described as an “extended ground operation” against Hamas, but photos, videos and satellite imagery verified by The New York Times show lines of armored vehicles moving into Gaza from the northwest, northeast and the east.
The apparent advance toward Gaza City was heightening fears among those who remained in the enclave’s largest city.
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A video verified by The Times filmed on Monday morning south of Gaza City showed an Israeli armored vehicle on the Salah al-Din Road, one of two major routes used by Gazans to flee south. When asked about the video at a morning briefing, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief spokesman for the Israeli military, said that he would not detail the location of Israeli forces.
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The Israeli military and the Shin Bet internal security agency said in a joint statement that Israeli forces had rescued an Israeli soldier abducted on Oct. 7 by Hamas militants. The soldier, identified as Ori Megidish, was rescued in the Gaza Strip during ground operations there overnight, the Israeli security agencies said. She is in good medical condition and has met with her family, they added.
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Israel’s foreign ministry confirmed the death of Shani Louk, a 23-year-old German-Israeli citizen believed to have been abducted by Hamas militants while attending a music festival on Oct. 7. Ms. Louk was most likely killed before she was taken into Gaza, her family said on Monday.
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Hamas’s armed wing released a video of three women, identified by the Israeli prime minister’s office, who are being held hostage. It was unclear if Hamas forced the women to make the video. One of the women sharply criticized Mr. Netanyahu, saying they are being held in “unbearable conditions,” and demanded that he free Hamas prisoners. In a statement, Mr. Netanyahu’s office called the footage “cruel psychological propaganda.”
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The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Israeli strikes had damaged sections of Al Quds Hospital in Gaza City, while Palestinian news media reported that the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza had also been damaged.
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Forty-seven trucks carrying food, water, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Sunday, according to a Palestinian official at the crossing. That was the largest one-day total in the nine days since the shipments began, but remained far short of what the United Nations has said civilians need in Gaza.
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The Israeli military carried out a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin overnight and at least four Palestinians were killed, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli Army said its soldiers engaged in a gunfight with armed Palestinians in a refugee camp and that an Israeli drone struck from the air. At least 115 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, according to U.N. figures…..